"Thoreau said to look along the bank right

at water level and to stand still for a few

minutes and right where the grasses stuck

up through the water you would see a muskrat

if there were any. I stood still for a bit, and sure

enough in a few minutes I saw a muskrat in the

middle of the city 2,000 miles from Walden Pond.

And I realized that Concord is where you are right now,

 and Walden Pond is the nearest body of water.

Denver was my real Concord."

 

from Channeling Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

an interview with Robert Richardson

 

author of the Emerson bio "The Mind on Fire"

 

                                 Salon.com